20/12/2002
Barry Diller to keynote NAB2003
Barry Diller is to deliver the all-industry opening keynote address at NAB2003 in Las Vegas.
In his varied career, Diller has served as Vice President of Prime Time Television for ABC Entertainment,

20/12/2002
Leitch equipment chosen by QVC
Leitch Technology Corporation have announced a major sale of their Genesis infrastructure platform and Leitch’s CCS Pilot software application for advanced configuration, control and monitoring to QVC

20/12/2002
NTL announce film channel to close
The Studio, the film channel set up by Vivendi and NTL, is to close at the end of the year.
The channel, available via NTL's digital TV subscription package, screened classic movies to 1.4m NTL subs

20/12/2002
OFT find Sky not guilty of competition breaches
After a lengthy investigation into allegations of anti-competitive practises, the UK Office of Fair Trading have concluded a study into Sky's business practises.
The company has not been found in br

20/12/2002
Sonic enhance desktop and set-top DVD
Sonic Solutions have announced that they are to add support for the Philips-developed DVD+RW Video Recording Format (+VR) to the Sonic AuthorScript DVD creation engine.
By adding +VR recording suppo

19/12/2002
BBC pay talks continue
BECTU and NUJ representatives met management on December 16 to continue a series of meetings, which began with the annual pay settlement in August 2002.
The talks cover a new pay and grading system,

19/12/2002
Discreet purchase 5D technology assets
Discreet have announced they have closed a bit for the technology assets of the now defunct 5D.
The liquidation of 5D Solutions' assets was triggered after 5D elected to close their worldwide offices

19/12/2002
Elliott to take over at ITV
ITV drama boss Nick Elliott is to run the network for six weeks in the New Year, as the BBC executive who has been hired to replace David Liddiment cannot start until February
Elliott, who considered

19/12/2002
JVC to showcase new projector at VideoForum
Following their recent success with d-cinema in 2002, JVC are to showcase at VideoForum the latest in their comprehensive range of high resolution D-ILA electronic projectors, the SXGA plus model SX21

19/12/2002
New authorised service centres for ETC
The first week of December saw ETC using the newly finished demo room at their Acton offices for a full week of hands-on, technical product training for new and existing Authorised Service Centres (AS

19/12/2002
New chief appointed at FilmFour
Channel 4 drama chief Tessa Ross is to head their new film division FilmFour, the broadcaster confirmed on Wednesday.
Ross will step down as head of drama to focus on film, a move seen as crucial in

19/12/2002
Redundancies announced at HIT Entertainment
HIT Entertainment, home of 'Bob the Builder' and 'Barney the Dinosaur', are to cut 70 jobs after buying the company behind 'Thomas the Tank' Engine earlier this year.
Sixty jobs will go when the Sou

19/12/2002
Scripts wanted from Bristol & West writers
'The Sitcom Trials', the comedy show in which new sitcoms compete, makes its TV debut on ITV1 in the West of England on February 21 2003, live every Friday night from Bristol.
Devised and presented b

18/12/2002
Aura hold AGM and announce new appointments
Following their recent AGM, the performers organisation AURA have announced that Stephen King has been appointed as chairman, taking over from Peter Jenner, who held the position for three years.
Jen

18/12/2002
CMP invest in 844/X from Media 100
As 844/X from Media 100 continues to gain traction with media professionals worldwide, Create Media Partners (CMP) are the latest company to invest in the award-winning editing system for lightning-fa

18/12/2002
Edifis launch Scratchbox enhancement
A major new announcement from Edifis, Lucifer is a powerful and affordable automatic image enhancement option for Scratchbox.
Scratchbox provides an efficient and easy-to-use toolset for repairing da

17/12/2002
BECTU agree ballot rules with BSkyB
BECTU have announced that a vote on union recognition at a BSkyB call centre is likely to start in January.
BECTU and BSkyB management have agreed to ground rules for the ballot, which identify the s

17/12/2002
Cross-market growth for Discreet 3ds max
Following the refocus of its systems and software products into separate operations, the software division of Discreet has reported continued massive year-on-year growth across all its target markets.